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eaved

American  
[eevd] / ivd /

adjective

  1. (of a roof, window, or door) provided with eaves or an overhang, often of a specified kind.


Example Sentences

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The fairy-tale cottage was whitewashed and its broad eaved roof was thatched.

From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

It is of stone, and has an immense gable roof, slated, and studded with eaved windows. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William

In the former place, the only notice a stranger may get is having “arf a brick eaved at him,” or being “pinned by a bull pup.”

From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

And over these you behold the thatch, thick and long and parti-coloured, eaved with little windows, where a bird may nest for ever.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

How vast it was, how protected, how high, how eaved, how enduring!

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire